On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 7:52 AM Jared K. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:44 PM Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Node’s package.json contains the license, so we should be able to just 
>> extract that recursively.
>
>
> In theory, yes.  In practice, some packages completely leave it out, some 
> packages put it under "license" and some under "licenses", and many packages 
> don't bother to include the license text with the code.  I've filed dozens of 
> tickets with upstream NodeJS projects to improve these, most of which have 
> been ignored for years.  I've come to the unfortunate conclusion that the 
> NodeJS community in general can't be bothered with license details.
>

I have spoken to a lawyer about this in the past. We are allowed to
make a "best reasonable effort" here. As long as we capture all of the
known licenses and we are responsive and immediately take action if
someone comes with a challenge, we should be fine.
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